Writer's tutorial entry; the identity of your POV

The identity of your POV
This is simply talking about the narrator in basic terms. The POV is often the perspective of the narrator or sometimes just the writer. It is the writer’s work to attribute an identity to the narrator and also his perspective. The identity of a narrator can be of two types based on location.
Within a story narrator: this is used in stories where the protagonists or someone else of notable importance narrates the story. More often, the first POV is best suited for this narration type because you can’t be there within a story and yet regard yourself as a he, or not even give your emotions adequate recognition. What happens eventually is in a longer piece for example, to stick to one “within the story POV” you will need to use multiple identities because there is hardly anyone in your novel that would be everywhere at the same time, especially if your story entails multiple plots and subplots. However another solution can yet be made and that is using multiple POV. Where the within the story narrator uses the first POV where he is involved and uses the third POV where he is not. However such a method can only be used in past tense narration.
The outside the story narrator, this identity involves narrators that are not present in the story. This category are quite delicate because they do have subcategories. The outside the story narration is most suited for the third person narration than third person. The two sub-category under this is:
The human narrator:- This narrators takes the form of an human, who is reporting a story that does not involve him. Let’s take for example I wish to tell the story of my best friend. I am human and will tell the story best to my knowledge and based on my judgement. I -as a human narrator- am meant to have limited knowledge as regard the story, though my judgement can be fully incorporated into the story, however I should not over use it as the readers might start to lose interest in a story if they feel the narrator is making too much assumptions and judgements. True life stories are often in this form, if the owner of the story relayed it to someone and the same person decided to relay it back, it becomes a human narrator and can only and always be written in third person perspective, except the writer decided to write in ghost mode for the owner of the real story hence he will write in the first POV hence the real owner of the story can claim the authorship of the state. However in fiction the case is different, there is no strict guideline and a writer might decide to make a tough choice of POV and give him a strange Identity. However it is the second sub-category that I will choose that most writers choose to use, simply because of it limitless ability to defend its knowledge of the story.
Sovereign narrator:- This narrator often assume the position of some super human being with a sovereign knowledge about a story. Let’s assume the identity of our narrator is that of a dead spirit telling a story about when he was alive. The dead spirit would have hidden knowledge about the story that an ordinary human being wouldn’t. More often than not, a writer would not define his narrator identity. However our intuition would always point us to the direction of the identity of the narrator. In the number one category above, the writer cannot hide and would not hide the identity of a POV except he want to create a special effect of mystery. If not, a narrator that is also present in expected to be public and never hidden in anyways.
This though is just my own personal classification and this classification helps me beyond, extensive or confusing options. I tend to understand the fact that a supreme narrator if revealed can create a necessary tension and mystery in a novel. In the coming instalment, I will talk about how to fully exploit the dynamic world of POV in your creative writings. Thank you very much for reading.
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